Hailing from Oakland, California, one mad-man presents us with his debut album, Dyspnea. A dense and morbid album with unrelenting instrumentation that hypnotizes you with its psychedelic and oppressive riffs. Just from the opening track Hypoesthesia, it creeps in for its hellish and chaotic assault, with intense blast beats, manic and truly chaotic vocals and…
Hailing from the jungles of Colombia, Gexerott presents us their third ritualistic offering to us in the form of Hallucinetic Violet Ignition, or otherwise known as Havigni, is a psychedelic and oppressive journey through a unique take on black metal take is both unique, yet traditional. Contained within are deeply esoteric and twisted vocals that…
Osiris – Meanders A Soul Much like Osirisin the ancient Egyptian myths, the band has been resurrected from the dead releasing their first full length album after their demo Storms from the East, an epic and theatrical album that tells a tale of the ancient Egyptian kingdom and its myths. Typically this type of metal…
Hailing from the dark French underground scene come La Ballade des Rats, spreading their plague with their third full length album Rattus Magnus, a melodic and chaotic raw black metal album bringing a medieval and aggressive sound to the fray. There are a couple of folk style songs on t his album, the first one…
Hailing from my own familial home-land, Costa Rica, come Troberoth with their second full length Fallen Angel. An ode to old school thrash and death metal. Showing their attitude and intensity through their music with aggressive riffs, demonic double bass, hellish vocals and a foreboding bass, combined together to create a blasphemous thrash assault. Like…
After a long seven years, Corr Mhóna have finally released their second full length record, Abhainn, a wonderfully beautiful album based around the mythological and spiritual importance of rivers. Something that is incredibly important in Irish-pagan spirituality as the rivers represent a deep duality of both life and destruction. These guys have captured this duality…
Hailing from the American underground, Deathwalker brings us Nihil Invocation‘s third full length release The Attaining Apparition and Night. A dark, cold, and hate filled album that shows its aggression in full display. Slow, methodical, and raw, it creeps under your skin and strikes right at you. Each track stays at a the same steady…
This one is going to hit or miss for a lot of people who decide to check this out. Ignoto, hailing from Chile, have presented us with their first full length album. Cantos Fúnebres is a strange, strange album, with harsh lo-fi production, amateur riffs filled with fury, and introspective and beautiful folk guitar parts….
Hailing from the UK, Portent brings us their first full length album, coming off the back of a solid demo and EP combo. This release, Black Humours & Sour Chasms follows similarly in the vein of the previous two releases, with manic and twisted guitar riffs accompanied with noisy and mid-paced drums and bestial vocals…
Chaos Over Cosmos is a very unique band with an approach I don’t think I’ve ever really heard before. Only being a two man band, the two members live on different sides of the planet. Hailing from Poland we have Rafal Bowman and Joshua Ratcliff from Australia. They’ve found a way to come together on…